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until you see the seating I’m thinking of for your theater room. I think you’ll love it. I know you wanted red and black seating in that room and a company I have dealt with in the past just released a new line of theater room seating so you’ll be one of the first to get this if you like it.”
    “Loren, I think you know me better than I know myself when it comes to my taste, so if you say I’ll like it, I’m sure I’ll love it. I look forward to seeing it.”
    Neither of them made a move to turn and enter the condos. They stood staring at each other.
    “Well if you like, when I’m done here at Duron’s, I can stop over to show you what I have so far. Of course, I don’t want to keep you from meeting up with your friends on time, so if you want me to, I can just email you some links of items to check out.”
    Mike thought about her suggestion. In the back of his mind, he could hear the mechanical voice of the robot from an old television series call Lost in Space, where it would say, “danger Will Robinson, danger.” He had seen some old reruns of the old television show and the message was relevant to this current situation. He need not invite Loren into his condo the way she was looking in those jeans and with the way he had been unable to get her off of his mind. He opened his mouth to tell her to go ahead and email him the links, but that’s not what came out.
    “Sure, stop on over, I’ll be here. I’m sure it won’t take us long to look at the links. I’ll have plenty of time to meet my buddies. That’s not until later this evening anyway. Just buzz when you’re done. Do you need me to come over when the delivery guy gets here so that you’re not by yourself?”
    Loren really liked how Mike always looked out for her.
    “No I’m good. He’s the husband of one my brother’s co-workers at the hospital. I’ll buzz when I’m done. If I’m taking too long, just go ahead with your plans and I’ll just email everything I have so far to you to take a look at. They are, after all, just ideas at the moment. I need to see the inside of the house to get a definitive idea on what will work in your space.”
    “That’s fine. I’ll see you in a bit then.”
    “Okay,” Loren replied as she turned, used her key and entered her brother’s condo.
    At the same time Mike entered his condo and shut the door.
    Loren released the breath she was holding. She had no idea what she was thinking when she mentioned stopping at his condo later. Before the evening they had dined, worked and danced together, it would not have been a big deal to stop in on him if she had run into him in the elevator. Now it seems things have changed between the two of them and Loren didn’t know how to get things back to normal. Everything seemed extra intense with Mike. Loren knew she couldn’t back out now. The words flew out of her mouth before her mind could catch up to her intention. She had to get herself together and stop the childish behavior, acting like an awestruck teenager and get to the business he was paying her to do. This was, for goodness sake, Mike, someone she had known since she was a braces wearing, tomboy. She could conduct business and tame her wild ideas of hot, passionate and somewhat kinky sex with Mike and remain professional. At least that’s what she hoped.

Chapter 6
    Mike checked the time again. Loren had called a half hour ago to say she was wrapping up with the guy from the art gallery and the workmen he brought with him to hang all of Duron’s art around his condo. Since he’d left her in the hall, he’d showered and changed into jeans and a pullover shirt so that when they were finished looking over all of the information she had gathered so far on ideas for his house, he could head out to meet his friends. He thought when she called she was on her way over then. He was about to call her to be sure everything was okay when his door buzzed. He went to let her in.
    “Sorry I’m late,” Loren